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1Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria.
Abstract:
This study assessed the effects of gender, faculty, and year (level) on "authoritarianism" among university students within the faculties of law and medicine. A questionnaire, using the Ray Adapted F Scale to measure authoritarianism, was administered to 454 students at the University of Western Australia. The first, third and sixth year medical students were compared with first, third and final year law students. Gender alone was responsible for a significant source of variance, with males more authoritarian than females. Faculty alone showed a strong trend towards significance with medicine more authoritarian than law. Although no other 2- or 3- way interactions were significant a trend was apparent in which females became more and males less authoritarian with increasing level.
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